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Eois
grataria Walker
Hyria grataria Walker, 1861, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln
Br. Mus.,22: 663.
Acidalia (?)pallicinctaria
Walker, 1863, Ibid., 26: 1612.
Amaurinia nubifera Thierry-Mieg, 1915, Miscnea ent., 22:
45.
Diagnosis.
The facies
is similar to that of plumbacea but with the shading and fasciation
vinous red rather than grey. The fringes of both wings are more distinctly
yellow, those of the forewing interrupted by darker scales.
Taxonomic
notes. Material
from Africa (ab. mediofusca Prout) and from the Moluccas eastwards to the
Bismarcks (ab. marginata Warren, ab. perflava Warren) is not
conspecific with grataria, the genitalia of both sexes being distinct.
Geographical
range. Indian
Subregion, Hong Kong, Sundaland, Christmas I. (slide 18785).
Habitat
preference. This
is probably a lowland species. The only recent specimen seen was taken in a Paraserianthes
falcataria plantation at Brumas in the lowlands of Sabah.
Biology.
Singh (1953)
described the larva (as Cambogia marginata Warren) from spirit-preserved
material. The body setae are long, fine, borne on chalazae and elongate
projections. The prolegs have a high number (up to 14) of external setae.
The
host-plant was Mallotus (Euphorbiaceae).
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